I was talking to a researcher in a university in New Zealand who is doing a research project in the sports and recreation area. He has spent some time looking at the sports that are preferred by university undergraduates and graduates, so I asked him what he had found out about the sports that were played by MBA students.
Interestingly most of them seem to be individual rather than team sports. He did not let me have access to all the statistical data, but he said that the most popular sport played by MBA students at his university was squash, quite closely followed by tennis.
Of course this is New Zealand, and the national sport is Rugby football. He said that there were MBA students who played Rugby, but these were less than 10% of MBA male students, whereas the number overall was about 35% male students.
# posted by Mary @ 2:49 PM
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Now that is amusing, I wonder what makes MBAs so out of the ordinary amongst the student population? Could it be something as simple as age? I'd have thought that MBA students would be a little older even than the graduate ones, given that they'll usually have a couple of years work experience.
Might be worth asking if that has been controlled for. If it has, then I assume we'll have to come up with some theory about how MBA types are not team players (not what we actually want to say) or perhaps they prefer to let their individual skills shine through?
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